Reviews for Suicide Blonde

The average rating for Suicide Blonde based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-11-22 00:00:00 George Kimberly A very weird one to rate. Full of sexual scenes and descriptions, somehow damaged people, incredibly creative and vivid descriptions of everything. I can't say it's not a good book but it was probably too depressing for me.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-28 00:00:00 Daniel Labrecque This book is my all time favorite modern novel. I read it every year, I think I've read it six times now, but to me, this book was a welcome and needed journey down a dark rabbit hole I needed to explore. The descriptiveness of the writing is revelatory. The book reads like poetry. It gave me a sense of hope for my own life. I was married to a bisexual man whom I adored, a former stripper and "hustler" who simply could not be faithful to me. I could relate to so much of the story line, and the characters, Jessie, Bell, Madison and Madam Pig. It is a dark, lonely, sad walk down deserted streets with fallen and doomed people who won't and cannot be saved. How many of those same characters have you seen in your own life? Too many for many people In so many ways I felt the proverbial connection to Jessie. Her intense solitary loneliness, her desire for goodness and to protect and love this man, who is so clearly intent on destroying himself. To want to save him, to be unable to save him. The language is lush, beautiful. The characters broken and yet the thinnest veil of hope seems to survive somehow. The book was immensely popular when it first came out in the early 90's and it continues to be. Perhaps that's why on June 7th, 2017 Maggie Nelson of The Paris Review wrote an article on the 25th "anniversary" of its publication and why it is still such a beautiful story. Its THAT good, that seminal and important to American culture and the world of letters. I realize I'm a nut about this book but I've got valid reasons to be. It reads like poetry, like a song, drifting along the periphery of your awareness and Jessie and Bell haunt you, just like those other people in your life haunt you. Excellent novel, wonderful read and I cannot recommend it enough.